Deniers' canard blown out the water

Gordon: "No such thing as global warming."

Peter: "Why do you say so?"

Gordon: "In the '70s scientists were predicting global cooling, now they predict global warming."

Peter: "So they got that wrong?"

Gordon: "Sure did."

Peter: "So... I thought you didn't believe in global warming?"

Gordon:

Peter: "Just read Realclimate! They now have a study on what climate scientists really were saying in the '70s."

clipped from www.realclimate.org "How can we believe climate scientists about global warming today when back in the 1970s they told us an ice age was imminent?" If, indeed, climate scientists predicted a coming ice age, it is worthwhile to take the next step and understand why they thought this, and what relevance it might have to today's science-politics-policy discussions about climate change. If, on the other hand, scientists were not really predicting a coming ice age, then the argument needs to be retired. Between 1965 and 1979 we found (see table 1 for details): 7 articles predicting cooling 44 predicting warming 20 that were neutral In other words, during the 1970s, when some would have you believe scientists were predicting a coming ice age, they were doing no such thing. The dominant view, even then, was that increasing levels of greenhouse gases were likely to dominate any changes we might see in climate on human time scales.